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Thank you for the reply, but this doesn’t work.

True, no need to change the search-author.php file, just realised it.

This may be slower, but it is very important to me. I tried to add one more meta_key, like description, but then it became much slower, so I left only the two, first_name and last_name.

Hi people… 15 minutos later I did it. If someone needs the same, take note of this code. Now you can search by first name or last name in the same textfield.

This is how I did it:

search-author.php

<?php
/**
 * The Template for displaying Author Search
 *
 * Override this template by copying it to yourtheme/simple-user-listing/search-author.php
 *
 */

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit; // Exit if accessed directly

$search = ( get_query_var( 'first_name' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'first_name' )  : '';

?>

<div class="author-search">
	<h2><?php _e('Search authors by name' ,'simple-user-listing');?></h2>
		<form method="get" id="sul-searchform" action="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
			<label for="as" class="assistive-text"><?php _e('Search' ,'simple-user-listing');?></label>
			<input type="text" class="field" name="first_name" id="sul-s" placeholder="<?php _e('Search Authors' ,'simple-user-listing');?>" value="<?php echo $search; ?>"/>
			<input type="submit" class="submit" id="sul-searchsubmit" value="<?php _e('Search Authors' ,'simple-user-listing');?>" />
		</form>
	<?php
	if( $search ){ ?>
		<h2 ><?php printf( __('Search Results for: %s' ,'simple-user-listing'), '<em>' . $search .'</em>' );?></h2>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php _e('Back To Author Listing' ,'simple-user-listing');?></a>
	<?php } ?>
</div><!-- .author-search -->

functions.php

// Switch the WP_User_Query args to a meta search
function kia_meta_search( $args ){
  // this $_GET is the name field of the custom input in search-author.php
    $search = ( isset($_GET['first_name'])) ? sanitize_text_field($_GET['first_name']) : false ;
    if ( $search ){
        // if your shortcode has a 'role' parameter defined it will be maintained
        // unless you choose to unset the role parameter by uncommenting the following
        //  unset( $args['role'] );
		$args = array(
	'meta_query' => array(
		'relation' => 'OR',
		array(
			'key'     => 'last_name',
			'value'   => $search,
			'compare' => 'LIKE'
		),
		array(
			'key'     => 'first_name',
			'value'   => $search,
			'compare' => 'LIKE'
		)
	)
 );
    }
    return $args;
}
add_filter('sul_user_query_args', 'kia_meta_search');

// Register query var and whitelist with Simple User Listing
function kia_search_vars( $vars ){
    $vars[] = 'first_name';
    return $vars;
}
add_filter('sul_user_allowed_search_vars', 'kia_search_vars');

Hope it helps ??

Ok,

that would be one of the best features of the plugin, as nobody searches for usernames. People search for real names and surnames, no nicks.

I tried the code you linked. It is the same es the one you posted in the FAQ section. It works when searching by one meta_key. The main problem for me is to use two meta_keys instead of one and make the search from one textfield.

Anyway, I will keep trying it.

Thank you ??

Ok, I will see what is the best solution. My theme has already a navigation system integrated, so if I install WP Pagenavi, I will have to somehow disable the default navigation.

Thank you ??

ok, thanks ??

I did it and for some reason did not work. I just created new user roles, deleted the old ones and after that I renamed the new ones again. This time it worked fine.

Hi!

Is there any chance to get a bit more detailed pagination?

Actual patination is like <Previous Next>

It would be nice to have something like <Previous 1 2 3 … N Next>

Is it possible?

Regards ??

I am using the last version of the plugin. With [userlist] there is no problem, although when I put in a filter for a custom user role, the results are not the desired.

It is a bit strange, because I have 2 new roles: Professional and Company

When I use [userlist role=”Professional”], no user is listed. When I user [userlist role=”Company”], two Professional users appear (instead of Company users). So I am a bit confused whith this.

Very good plugin although ?? The full list, without filters works well

Hi everyone!
I am back with a small piece of code. This is the main line to retrieve all the comments recieved on all posts published by an author XXX.

<?php
$comments_count = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT SUM(comment_count) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE comment_count!='0' AND post_author='XXX'");
echo "<p>Comments count: {$comments_count}</p>";
?>

So if you want to retrieve a bit more information, here is how I did it:

<?php
$number 	= 3;
$paged 		= (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$offset 	= ($paged - 1) * $number;
$order_by = 'post_count'; // 'nicename', 'email', 'url', 'registered', 'display_name', or 'post_count'
$order = 'DESC';
$avatar_size = 191;
$blogusers = get_users('&offset='.$offset.'&number='.$number.'exclude='.$exclude.'&orderby='.$order_by.'&order='.$order);
$users 		= get_users();
$total_users = count($users);
$total_query = count($query);
$total_pages = intval($total_users / $number) + 1;

foreach($blogusers as $q) {
$u = get_the_author_meta('id', $q->ID);
$comments_count = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT SUM(comment_count) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE comment_count!='0' AND post_author=".$u);?>

<p><a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($q->ID); ?>"><?php echo get_avatar( $q->ID, $avatar_size); ?></a></p>
<p>Name: <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($q->ID);?>"><?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $q->ID);?></a></p>

<?php if (get_the_author_meta('description', $q->ID) != '') : ?>
  <p>Description:<?php echo get_the_author_meta('description', $q->ID); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

<p>Posts: <?php echo count_user_posts($q->ID);?></p>
<p>Comments recieved on those posts: <?php echo $comments_count;?></p>
<p></p>

<?php } ?>

<?php
if ($total_users > $total_query) {
echo '<div id="pagination" class="clearfix">';
echo '<span class="pages">Pages:</span>';
  $current_page = max(1, get_query_var('paged'));
  echo paginate_links(array(
		'base' => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%',
		'format' => 'page/%#%/',
		'current' => $current_page,
		'total' => $total_pages,
		'prev_next'    => true,
		'prev_text'    => __('? Previous'),
	'next_text'    => __('Next ?'),
		'type'         => 'plain',
    ));}
echo '</div>';
?>

This one retrieves the avatar with a link to all the posts of the author, the name, number of posts created and the cound of comments recieved on them.

It also has a pagination code, so if you have plenty of users to list, you can display a limited amount at a time.

Note this is not formatted. You should display the info in divs and give some CSS rules to them.

Hope this helped someone ??

Thank you Tara,

I’ll take a look at those links.

For now I am searching an ugly way to do it, by making a query with multiple tables, involving wp_comments (where the column comment_post_ID is relevant), wp_posts (post_author column) and wp_users (ID).

In wp_users I will get the user ID. After that, in wp_posts, I will find what posts belong to that user and finally, in wp_comments I will count how many comments belong to those posts.

I don’t really know how I am going to do that, but this is my plan for now ??

Thank you ??

Although it doesn’t seem to be what I want to achieve. That script retrieves all the comments each user has made. What I need is the “opposite”: count the comments made each user’s posts and sum.

This way I pretend to show how important an author is in the web, because if his posts recieve a lot of comments, we believe they are good posts. So the more comments an author recieves on his posts, the better.

Why not? I need to echo the categories names and IDs and Edit Flow does have categories…